sicko

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A person with unpleasant tastes, views or habits.

   • 1986 June 9, David Denby, Movies: Poison, New York, page 130, But in fact, the murders have been committed by an army of sickos, a phalanx of wild-eyed droolers led by a monster goon with a concrete jaw and a Neanderthal brow.
2. 2

   A mentally ill person.

   • So come on, doc, precisely which kind of sicko is America? You might plump for depressed (isolationist), psychopathic (lack of empathy) or even psychotic (barking mad - what P.G. Wodehouse referred to as "thinking you're a poached egg").
   • You're a gambler, huh? A sicko like Essay?
   • It was at this time that the lesbian "sicko" became the dominant image of the woman who loved other women and curing lesbians on the couch became a big business in America.
3. 3

   A physically ill person.

   • Sicko status: Can you keep going even when you're feeling out of sorts?
   • Sickos: If it seems like your toddler is always sick, it's because they are.
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   1. 4

      Characterized by depraved tastes or habits

      Characterized by depraved tastes or habits; deviant.

      • The damage level was sicko, even Eddy had been taken aback when they'd first gone inside, scared but trying to hide it. What was Eddy doing? "One last thing I wanna get," he'd said, and then disappeared back into the house. Now he was ...
      • “I didn't want that pediatrician to touch me, he was, like, a very weird guy, very sicko.” He took pictures of her genitals, and she later wondered whether this was for child pornography.

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